Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Uehara

Kazuhiro Uehara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240311135
    Abstract: A center device that manages data to be written in an electronic control device and performs, by an application program, functions to transmit update data to a vehicle by wireless communication is provided. An application program implementing at least one of the functions adopts a serverless architecture. The application program is activated upon occurrence of an event and is dynamically allocated with a resource in an on-demand manner for execution of a code of the application program. The resource is released when the execution of the code is terminated. The center device is configured to receive vehicle configuration information and determine whether there is campaign information; generate campaign notification information; manage a generation state of the campaign notification information; and distribute the campaign notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Hideo YOSHIMI, Yuzo HARATA, Nao KOJIMA, Kazuhiro UEHARA, Yoshitaka OZAKI, Shuhei TAKAHASHI, Masaaki ABE, Koto TOMATSU
  • Patent number: 12083970
    Abstract: A vehicle master device includes a rewrite target specifying unit that is configured to identify a plurality of rewrite target ECUs, a rewrite completion determination unit that is configured to determine whether a program rewrite is completed for all the plurality of rewrite target ECUs specified by the rewrite target specifying unit, an activation executable determination unit that is configured to determine whether activation is executable when the rewrite completion determination unit determines that the program rewrite is completed for all the plurality of rewrite target ECUs, and an activation request instruction unit that is configured to instruct all the plurality of rewrite target ECUs at the same time to perform the activation when the activation executable determination unit determines that activation is executable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12087103
    Abstract: An electronic control unit diagnoses the electronic control unit via wired connection or wireless from an outside of a vehicle and rewrites the electronic control unit via the wire or the wireless from the outside of the vehicle, based on a program acquired from the outside of the vehicle via the wire or the wireless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Uehara, Yuzo Harata, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12067391
    Abstract: A first package corresponding to a first system and a second package corresponding to a second system are downloaded from a center device, and an update data is extracted from the first package and the second package. An electronic control device as a write target installs the update data and activates the update data after an install of the update data is completed. All electronic control devices as a first write target corresponding to the first system and all electronic control devices as a second write target corresponding to the second system are instructed at a same timing to activate the update data after completing the install of the update data in all the electronic control devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoma Okamoto, Kazuhiro Uehara, Yuzo Harata
  • Publication number: 20240272896
    Abstract: A center device manages data to be written in an electronic control device mounted on a vehicle and performs, by an application program, a plurality of functions to transmit update data to the vehicle by wireless communication. An application program implementing at least one of the functions adopts a serverless architecture. The application program is activated upon occurrence of an event and is dynamically allocated with a resource in an on-demand manner for execution of a code of the application program. The resource allocated to the application program is released when the execution of the code is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Hideo YOSHIMI, Yuzo HARATA, Nao KOJIMA, Masaaki ABE, Koto TOMATSU, Kazuhiro UEHARA
  • Patent number: 12061897
    Abstract: A vehicle master device includes a rewrite specification data acquisition unit that is configured to acquire rewrite specification data from outside, a rewrite specification data analysis unit that is configured to analyze the rewrite specification data acquired by the rewrite specification data acquisition unit, a rewrite target specifying unit that is configured to identify a rewrite target ECU and a non-rewrite target ECU based on an analysis result by the rewrite specification data analysis unit, an installability determination unit that is configured to determine whether installation is feasible for the rewrite target ECU, and a state transition control unit that is configured to control at least one non-rewrite target ECU to be in a stop state, a sleep state, or a power saving operating state when the installability determination unit determines that the installation is feasible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12045599
    Abstract: A center device includes an update data storage unit in which new data and new difference data for updating to the new data from old data are stored for, among electronic control units mounted on a vehicle, a target device targeted for data update. The center device generates, using the new data, a first verification value for verifying integrity in the vehicle, and generates, using the new difference data, a second verification value for verifying integrity of the new difference data in the vehicle. The center device generates a package including the new difference data, the first verification values and the second verification values for a plurality of the target devices. The center device generates, using the distribution package, a third verification value for verifying integrity of the distribution package in the vehicle, and transmits the distribution package along with the third verification value to the in-vehicle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Ogawa, Nao Sakurai, Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Takuya Hasegawa, Takuya Kawasaki, Kazuaki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 12030443
    Abstract: A center device is configured to acquire software information of an ECU from a vehicle side, determine whether availability of update data for a vehicle based on the acquired software information, and transmit the campaign information to a master device when a vehicle condition is determined to be a contion suitable for an update. The master device is configured to download a distribution package from the center device when the vehicle condition is determined to be a condition in which the distribution package is downloadable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Takuya Kawasaki, Mitsuyoshi Natsume
  • Patent number: 11999360
    Abstract: A vehicle master device includes a cancellation request determination unit that is configured to determine whether a cancellation request is generated during program rewriting from an old program to a new program in response to distributing the update data to the rewrite target ECU by the update data distribution unit, a rollback method specifying unit that is configured to, when the cancellation request determination unit determines that the cancellation request is generated, specify a rollback method for returning the rewrite target ECU to a state where writing of the update data has not yet started in accordance with a memory type of the non-volatile memory of the rewrite target ECU and a data type of the update data of the new program or the old program, and a rollback execution unit that is configured to instruct the rewrite target ECU to execute a rollback according to the rollback method specified by the rollback method specifying unit and have the rewrite target ECU operate with the old program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Kazuhiro Uehara, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11989546
    Abstract: In a vehicle electronic control system, an electronic control device (ECU) is configured to rewrite a program by writing the update data received from the vehicle master device in a non-volatile memory. Incomplete provisional software is written in a write area of the non-volatile memory in the ECU. The vehicle master device includes: a specific mode determination unit that is configured to determine whether a specific mode for controlling a sequence of a program update is set; and a rewrite instruction unit that is configured to instruct the rewrite target ECU to write the update data under the specific mode when the specific mode determination unit determines that the specific mode is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara
  • Patent number: 11960875
    Abstract: A vehicle master device includes at least one processor that is configured to: download rewrite specification data, reprogramming data, and new configuration setting information from a center device upon determining that there is a campaign notification relating to a program update based on a notification from the center device; determine whether an application program is to be rewritten or configuration setting information is to be rewritten based on the rewrite specification data; instruct a rewrite target ECU to rewrite the application program upon determining that the application program is to be rewritten; and instruct the rewrite ECU to rewrite the configuration setting information upon determining that the configuration setting information is to be rewritten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara
  • Patent number: 11947953
    Abstract: A vehicle electronic control system includes a mode determination unit that is configured to determine whether a customization mode for a screen display related to an approval to a program update is set through a user's customization operation, and a screen display instruction unit that is configured to instruct the display terminal to display a progress screen of the program update according to a current update phase and a setting of the customization mode when the mode determination unit determines that the customization mode is set and instruct the display terminal to display the progress screen of the program update according to the current update phase and an initial setting when the mode determination unit determines that the customization mode is not set. The display terminal is configured to display the progress screen of the program update as instructed by the screen display instruction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiji Abe, Nao Sakurai, Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11941384
    Abstract: A vehicle master device includes a rewrite specification data acquisition unit that is configured to acquire rewrite specification data from outside, a rewrite specification data analysis unit that is configured to analyze the rewrite specification data acquired by the rewrite specification data acquisition unit, a group generation unit that is configured to divide the plurality of rewrite target ECUs to generate a plurality of groups based on the rewrite specification data analyzed by the rewrite specification data analysis unit, and an instruction execution unit that is configured to instruct the plurality of rewrite target ECUs for each group of the plurality of groups generated by the group generation unit to perform at least one of installation, rollback, and activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Masaaki Abe, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11934823
    Abstract: An electronic control system for vehicle includes a center device that manages a program update of a vehicle, and a vehicular master device that is communicable with the center device. The center device, responsive to a user giving approval for program update by using a device not being a possession owned by the user, receives approval information of the user, and stores and manages the approval information in association with vehicle information of the user. The center device transmits the approval information to the user's vehicle side. When the vehicular master device receives the approval information, the vehicular master device performs rewriting of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Takuya Kawasaki, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Masaaki Abe
  • Publication number: 20240086174
    Abstract: A vehicular electronic control device installed in a vehicle capable of switching between a chargeable state and an unchargeable state performs activation acceptance for inquiring of a user whether to accept activation processing of activating updated software after completion of installation processing of writing update data in an update target node to generate the updated software, transmits during the chargeable state a switching instruction that executes the activation processing during the chargeable state to the update target node, and transmits during the chargeable state a switching setting instruction that executes the activation processing during the unchargeable state to the update target node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sho NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro Uehara, Hideo Yoshimi, Tomoya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11928459
    Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a first process flag setting unit that is configured to set a first process flag indicative of a progress of a first process that is one of a series of processes related to a program rewrite, a second process flag setting unit that is configured to set a second process flag indicative of a progress of a second process that is an other of the series of processes related to the program rewrite, and a retry point specifying unit that is configured to specify, based on the first process flag and the second process flag, a retry point for resuming the program rewrite when the program rewrite is suspended. The retry point specifying unit is further configured to store an amount of the update data that has been written until the program rewrite was suspended and request the vehicle master device to transfer the update data based on the stored amount of the update data when resuming the program rewrite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11926270
    Abstract: A display control device includes a cancellation detection unit that is configured to detect a cancellation regarding a program rewrite from first update data stored in the rewrite target ECU to second update data acquired from an external device, a write instruction unit that is configured to distribute the second update data to the rewrite target ECU and instruct the rewrite target ECU to write the second update data thereinto, and a notification instruction unit that is configured to give an instruction for notification of a progress regarding the program rewrite. The notification instruction unit is further configured to give the instruction to make the notification of the progress regarding the program rewrite in a first manner when the write instruction unit is distributing the second update data, and give the instruction to make the notification of the progress regarding the program rewrite in a second manner when the cancellation detection unit detects the cancellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Masaaki Abe, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20240061672
    Abstract: A vehicle electronic control device includes a first execution instruction section that instructs a download processing execution section to execute the download processing, a second execution instruction section that instructs an update target node to execute installation processing and activation processing, and an execution request section that transmits an execution request to the first execution instruction section or the second execution instruction section in units of update methods, and requests execution of any of the download processing, the installation processing, and the activation processing in units of update methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Kazuhiro UEHARA
  • Patent number: 11907698
    Abstract: In a vehicle electronic control system, a vehicle master device is configured to acquire data storage bank information including information for specifying which bank is an active bank and information for specifying software versions of an active bank and an inactive bank from a rewrite target ECU that has a non-volatile memory with a plurality of data storage banks and to transmit the data storage bank information acquired by the data storage bank information acquisition unit to a center device. The center device is configured to select update data compliant to the inactive bank on the basis of the software versions and the active bank specified by the data storage bank information received from the vehicle master device and to transmit a distribution package including the update data selected by the update data selection unit to the vehicle master device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Takuya Hasegawa, Takuya Kawasaki, Kazuaki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 11907697
    Abstract: In a vehicle electronic control system, a center device includes an update data storage unit that stores update data for rewrite targets. Program rewriting to rewrite target electronic control units is one campaign. The center device includes a display control information storage unit that stores display control information necessary to display information related to the campaign on a vehicle side. The center device transmits the update data stored in the update data storage unit and the display control information stored in the display control information storage unit to a vehicle master device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Harata, Kazuhiro Uehara, Takuya Kawasaki, Mitsuyoshi Natsume, Masaaki Abe